Fort Wayne News

A Fort Wayne man arrested last week for firing a gun in the air and then fleeing police was formally charged Wednesday.

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ABOVE: Stephanie O'Shaughnessy, left, with daughters Suzanna and Bonnie Hanefeld, shops for home-made soaps Wednesday at Amy Krucina's booth at the downtown Fort Wayne Farmers Market at One Summit Square.

Tuesday's ad is for the C.L. Centlivre Brewing Co. of Fort Wayne, Indiana, from around 1880.

STEUBEN COUNTY, Ind. The Indiana Department of Transportation announces that the intermittent restrictions on southbound I-69, between Exit 348 and Exit 340 , will continue until Wednesday, June 26, weather permitting.

A Roman Catholic priest affiliated with a Fort Wayne parish has been removed from public ministry after his religious congregation received a credible allegation of sexual abuse of a minor against him, the Fort Wayne-South Bend Roman Catholic Diocese says.

The Fort Wayne Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding three people suspected of theft and fraud.

Shambaugh & Son, L.P. announced today its plans for a two component expansion project.

Knight, 45, holed up inside a house in the 3000 block of Holton Avenue just before noon March 20. About four hours earlier, Knight pulled 49-year-old Jacqueline Bouvier Hardy off a Citilink bus and shot her in the face with a shotgun, according to police.

Food left cooking unattended on a stove started a small fire Tuesday afternoon at a house on Fort Wayne's north side, the city fire department said.

At the start of the night there were four proposals on the table on how to address the cities budget problems, now there are two percent, but Councilman Russ Jehl, R-2nd and Mitch Harper, R-4 th , are opposed the idea of raising taxes and pitched their idea of coming up with the needed funds, while avoiding a tax hike.

I've always been a little skeptical about whether so-called cooling off periods are an effective way to prevent public officials from using their government positions to help companies they might later go to work for.

I think I might take some time this week and wander around town and bother to notice, if not admire, the various sculptures, monuments and markers that we have in the city.

SPENCERVILLE, Ind. A 140-year-old covered bridge in northeastern Indiana heavily damaged last fall when a too-tall semi drove through it should be reopening to traffic soon.

Yearly defense authorization bills in the House and Senate also would keep the Starbase education program under the Pentagon's jurisdiction.

Fort Wayne-Allen County Airport Authority officials cut the ribbon on a new terminal building at Smith Field airport Monday.

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A 5-year-old boy who nearly drowned at Bixler Lake in Noble County was clinging to life Sunday in a Fort Wayne hospital, according to Indiana conservation officers.

SYRACUSE, Ind. A northern Indiana lake resort that was once a religious retreat for a century has reopened to visitors after being shut down five years ago.